Precious Metal Recovery
Reclaiming gold, silver, copper, and rare earth metals from e-waste at up to 99% recovery.
Overview
Electronic devices contain significant quantities of gold, silver, copper, palladium, and rare earth elements. Our advanced smelting and refining processes, guided by AI sorting upstream, achieve up to 99% precious metal recovery rates — turning waste into high-value commodities.
Key Features
- ✓Up to 99% precious metal recovery rate
- ✓Gold, silver, copper, palladium, and rare earths
- ✓Certified smelting and refining processes
- ✓Refinery-grade output returned to the supply chain
- ✓Competitive buy-back rates for enterprise clients
How It Works
Precious Metal Recovery process
Step 01
Pre-sorting
Boards, connectors, and high-value fractions are AI-sorted out of the shredded stream.
Step 02
Density & optical separation
Density and optical sorting isolate the precious-metal-bearing fractions.
Step 03
Smelting & refining
Certified smelting and refining recover gold, silver, copper, and palladium to refinery-grade purity.
Step 04
Refinery-grade output
Recovered metals are refined to refinery-grade purity for return to the supply chain.
Frequently Asked Questions
Precious Metal Recovery FAQs
Which precious metals does 3R Technology Global recover?+
We recover gold, silver, copper, and palladium from printed circuit boards, connectors, and other electronic components, plus rare earth elements where present.
What recovery rate do you achieve on precious metals?+
Up to 99% precious metal recovery — significantly above the 85–90% baseline of traditional smelting routes, made possible by AI-driven upstream sorting and certified downstream refining.
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